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SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. H. Cns. 130, 137. 1918. 815 ment of the United States or the District of Columbia; employees who serve voluntarily or receive only a nominal compensation, and employees who may be provided with special allowances because of their ¤0mB?§§ service in foreign countries. _ The provisions of this section shall not Stntesemployws. apply to employees of the railroads taken over by the United States, and nothing contained herein shall be deemed a reco ition of the employees of such railroads as employees of the Unite§nStates. Double mm, pw Section six of the legislative, executive, and éudicial appropriation hibiticn me appucabie Act approved May tenth, nineteen hundred an sixteen, as amended h°i}ii1°i'as, p. sm. by the naval appropriation Act approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall not operate to revent anyone from receiving the additional compensation provided) in this section who otherwise is entitled to receive the same. Hémwkmpbym Such employees as are engaged on piecework, the hour, or at C0 mi to d per diem rates, if otherwise entitled to receive the ditional compen- mml`£°psy.°° °` sation shall receive the same at the rate to which they are entitled in this section when their fixed rate of pay for the regular workinghours and on the basis of three hundred and thirteen da in the said fiscal P,,,,,,,_ year would amount to $2,500 or less: Provided, '1'hitt this method of NM ¤PIg;$l° *>¤ conslputation shall not apply to any per diem employees regularly Hg W p°y` pai a per diem for every day in the year. A . mm mm So much as may be necessary to pay the additional compensation ms ¤: mmm. pyrovided in this section to employees of the Government of the ““°“"°“‘ ’°°‘* nited_States is approdpriated out o any money m the Treasury not Otherwise appropriate · , A roprlation for So much as may be necessary to pay the increased compensation ggéggt of p)rovided in this section to employees of the government of the nsiziszmmms istrict of Columbia is appropriated, one-half out of any money m the Treasury not otherwise appropriated and one-half out of the wm, Dmmm, revenues of the District of Colum ia, except to employees of the g°¤¤¤¤¤r¤¤¤ ¤¤=¤ Nw Washington Aqueduct and the water department, which shall be· ' paid entirely from the revenues of the water department. _ Tm, md ,m&l,,,. So much as may be necessary to pay the increased compensation ¤¤S¤¤¤*¤=¤**¤¤ · provided in this section to persons emplloyed under trust fimds who may be construed to be employees of the Government of the United States or the District of Co umbia is authorized to be paid, respectively, from such trust fnmds. D,t,¤,d rgpogig gn Reports shall be submitted to Congress on the first day of the next ¤¤=¢¤•y¤f¤•¤¢¤•¤¤i¤¤· regular session showing for the first four months of the fiscal éear the average number of employees in each department, bureau, office or establishment receiving the increased compensation at the_ratc oi $120 per annum and the average number by grades receiving the same at each other rate. Approved, July 3, 1918. mi ams. CHAP. 137.-An Act Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of (H- 12541-1 defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes. Be it enacted b the Senate and House of Representatives of the United ,,.6,,,,, States of America in Congress assembled, That the following_ sums are priaticnslamm approappropriated, out of any moneg in the Treasiuy not otherwise appropriated, to be available imme `ately and to contmue available until expended, namely: FORTIFICATIONS AND OTHER WORKS OF DEFENSE. ENGINEER Dnrsnnmm. mgrgsnec Input- . . . . · · Coast Artillery war For maintenance of Coast Artillery war-instruction matériel at memes. Coast Artillery posts, including necessary material and labor therefor